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Mar 17, 2013

Today I decided to deviate from
my blog subjects – Art and Jewelry, to write about

“Food, Wonderful Food!”

We, Israelis, are obsessive diners. We eat a
lot! Big dishes and big meals!
(If the dish in a restaurant is poorly loaded, I mean – is stylishly arranged,
it is considered as overcharging andmiserly…)

What is the first question a
Jewish mother is asking any family member of hers?

“Have you eaten?”

I admit – I do it all the time, I cannot avoid it…Maybe it derives from our collective memory of the hard life in the Diaspora...(Well, it is my uneducated guess).

I am going to write about
Making an Israeli Vegetable salad:

This is an exhausting(yet rewording) process:- Washingand peeling the cucumber, and then – cutting
it into cubes;
- Washingand cleaning the tomato, and
then – cutting it into cubes;
- Washingand cleaning the the pepper
(red/green/yellow),
and then – cutting it into cubes;
- Cutting the lettuce into strips;
- Peeling and washing the onion and then – cutting it into cubes;
- Washingand cleaning the raddishes,
and then – cutting it into cubes;

Well, it is easier to write it by
copy/paste, than making it literally.

And here comes the most annoying stage: making the dressing:

-Adding salt;

-Adding lemon juice;

-Adding olive oil;

- Adding garlic;

Adding and adding and adding!!!

After about thousandtimes of making salads this way, I decided to make a shortcut:I prepare my divinemulti-purpose salad dressing once a week,and
here are my ingredients:(Do not ask me the amounts. A Jewish mother cooks with intuition!)

The relationship between the olive oil and the rest of the ingredients is 2/3 oil and 1/3 the rest.

-Smashed garlic (I use
smashed frozen garlic);

-Salt ( taste the
dressing. It has to be really salty as we put only a small amount of it in the
salad);

-Dried Oregano;

-Lemon juice;

-Balsamic vinegar (Just a little for the color and the aroma);

- Olive oil;

Shake before using, pour about one table spoon, blend the salad
and

Bon Appetite!

I use it also for frying a fish
fillet and a chicken breast. It is delicious, yummy!

P.S.

It is kosher for Passover.

Please try it, and comment
below if you like it, and if it makes your life easier...